The video was directed by Noah Banks over the course of two weeks and was made from 3,000 still images and zero video footage. Watch Naledge get his stop-motion on while making his way through the streets of the Chi.

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104 Responses to “Video: Naledge – Focus”

chick from work wanted to send me an ass shot pic, I didnt want to give her my cell digits… so I gave her my boys… after she sent the pic, she asked, is that really your number? to which I replied I no thats my homies. She’s pissed and wont talk to me anymore. She got a phatty… I couldnt just do without the picture. She doesnt understand all rational thought goes out the window when faced with a phatty.

June 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
chick from work wanted to send me an ass shot pic, I didnt want to give her my cell digits… so I gave her my boys… after she sent the pic, she asked, is that really your number? to which I replied I no thats my homies. She’s pissed and wont talk to me anymore. She got a phatty… I couldnt just do without the picture. She doesnt understand all rational thought goes out the window when faced with a phatty.

I would be skeptical if I had a wifey. Like somebody trying to get me caught up.

^ if the nigga had a wiz, I wouldnt of gave her the digits… he’s one of them niggas on catch-up time, making up for all the pussy he didnt get in his 20′s… Dude got an arsenal of hoes, and he dont discrimate.

I think I was like 10 or some shit when I was watching a crazy skate vid on VHS…and they had crazy hip hop tracks on there…beatnuts, Wutang, gangstarr…I had never heard any hiphop like that before, only like mainstream shit. Turned me into a hip hop fan for life…

Skateboarding might not have been influential to hip hop, but hip hop was and is hugely influential on skating.

i’d be caught the fuck up w/ TWO cells!
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word you get caught with two cells and its almost over. I always leave the work jawn in my car after I leave work. One day about 2months or so into my relationship, Im riding along with the wifey and its ringing in the middle console and the WIFEY was like “WTF YOU GOT TWO CELLS” … i had to deadass that argument quick. I Dont think she completely bought it for a while

Before you went to jail for 18 years, there seemed to be two major events that shaped you–the murder and the time you wore a wire for the police. The murder has been recounted a lot, but could you tell me about the wire?
That incident was the hardest thing in the world for me to do. But sometimes when you making changes you have to make the hardest decisions in the world. When the guy got… when we killed the guy, I managed to tell one guy, Fruit Loop, to get away but I wasn’t able to save the other guy and we had to go through with that. That was a hard decision. You make hard decisions, and if you can make them for the bad you can make them for the good. The time when I wore the wire, the feds and everybody was expecting me to renege but I was at the point in my life where it was either do or die right there. It was really, really hard and the thing is, the good thing is, I didn’t have to testify. That was something I didn’t know if I could go through with, so with them copping out it was a blessing for me. I was determined to make that change because I knew I was better than that, and to see my best friend Shortie Smalls die, that was a turning point. Shortie always told me my name, Donnie Andrews

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you mean to tell me the guy that was hunting down marlo w/omar was who omar was based off of and the dude was an informant for the federalis?

GTFOH!
no wonder that series was so ill. one of its most polarizing characters is an actual person. really, i thought omar little was manufactured

donnie still got that murderous goon aura to him tho.

^There were a lot of “Real” characters in the wire. THe old guy that used to give advice to guy that ran the boxing gym, he was on american gangster. He was like it was because he was attached to the show that the film crew didn’t have a problem shooting in the actual hoods out there. We all know about snoop, you know she bout it.

I have a Blackberry Curve and a T-Mobile Sidekick. My T-Mobile contract ends July 17th and I’m letting that go. I’ve been waiting a long time to get rid of it. Anybody want a Sidekick? Its the first jawn. I’ll let it go for $40

Alright you home owners..listen up…for those who own a home (legally), what are my chances of coppin a house if it’s under contract. Should I get on it as well and wait hoping the person backs out or is not approved or should I just treat em like hos and move on to the next. 2 of the homes I want are under contract. My 3rd choice is available. Bout to put the down payment on it today but feeling iffy cause it’s not the one I really want. the only thing wrong with it is it doesnt have a deck. Thoughts?

June 30th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Alright you home owners..listen up…for those who own a home (legally), what are my chances of coppin a house if it’s under contract. Should I get on it as well and wait hoping the person backs out or is not approved or should I just treat em like hos and move on to the next. 2 of the homes I want are under contract. My 3rd choice is available. Bout to put the down payment on it today but feeling iffy cause it’s not the one I really want. the only thing wrong with it is it doesnt have a deck. Thoughts?

June 30th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
there are people here whos full time job is to dickjack and remember everything you type. no shots.
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agreed, niggs have no life or future…so everything you say seems out of bounds to them nigga to the point they call you a liar…or have multiply personalities cause no on agrees with their un-evolved primate logic.

That’s why when you purchase a house that you might want to renovate..you have to ask your city about PERMITS, and can you built it if you chose

^ I’ll look into that but the backyard is small cause there is a street right there. Which is why its the cheaper house because not much land is mine in the backyard. I was trying to stay away from tha homes on that strip with the street in the backyard. The backyard is like 5 yards, then the sidewalk, then the street lol

I’ll look into that but the backyard is small cause there is a street right there. Which is why its the cheaper house because not much land is mine in the backyard. I was trying to stay away from tha homes on that strip with the street in the backyard. The backyard is like 5 yards, then the sidewalk, then the street lol

^ by the time you fence it in, you’ll be aight. Theres enough room to to relax in a lawn chair right. (none)